Canadian baby 'first without gender designation' on health card

[Gabbar Singh]

Poor kid.

An eight-month old Canadian baby has been issued a health card without a gender marker, in what could be the first case in the world.

Parent Kori Doty - a non-binary transgender person who identifies as neither male nor female - aims to allow the child to discover their own gender.

The health card has been issued with a "U" in the space for "sex", which could be for "undetermined" or "unassigned".

Kori Doty is fighting to omit the gender from the birth certificate.

The parent gave birth to Searyl Atli in November at a friend's home in British Columbia. Kori Doty, who prefers to use the pronoun they, argues that a visual inspection at birth is unable to determine what gender that person will have or identify with later in life.

They want to keep Searyl's sex off all official records.

"I'm raising Searyl in in such a way that until they have the sense of self and command of vocabulary to tell me who they are, I'm recognising them as a baby and trying to give them all the love and support to be the most whole person that they can be outside of the restrictions that come with the boy box and the girl box," the parent was quoted by CBC as saying.

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Kori Doty, a community educator who is part of the Gender-Free ID Coalition, said that those who feel different to the gender designation assigned at birth face several problems later in life trying to change their documents.

"When I was born, doctors looked at my genitals and made assumptions about who I would be, and those assignments followed me and followed my identification throughout my life," Kori Doty said.

"Those assumptions were incorrect, and I ended up having to do a lot of adjustments since then."


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In the case of Searyl Atli, the parent said that the authorities have refused to issue the birth certificate without a gender designation and so the parent has applied for a judicial review of the case.

The family's lawyer, barbara findlay, who chooses to spell her name without capital letters, told Global News: "The assignment of sex in this culture is done when a medical person lifts up the legs and looks at the baby's genitals. But we know that the baby's own gender identity will not develop for some years until after they're born."

Canadian media reported that the baby's health card could be the first in the world to not have a gender designation.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40480386

 

[Suleiman]

Hate it when these social justice warriors plague their children with this same nonsense

 

[Specialisttailender]

More and more liberal lovers are becoming stupid by the day. All the girls in early 20s who are fat, ugly or both have become a feminist and a social justice warriors. They don't want men to judge women by their looks and actions but they do the same to men, especially men that has no spine. Seen it myself. On the positive side, these girls will mostly likely will not have a child and that is good news. Last thing we want is the spreading of mislead feminism.

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Awful stuff. Spreading this disease on to their own kids

 

[Yossarian]

"I'm raising Searyl in in such a way that until they have the sense of self and command of vocabulary to tell me who they are, I'm recognising them as a baby and trying to give them all the love and support to be the most whole person that they can be outside of the restrictions that come with the boy box and the girl box," the parent was quoted by CBC as saying.

And how old is the child likely to be before he/she gets to that stage? To the stage of actually fully understanding the question. I suggest until at least the early to mid teens. And all the while being ridiculed by friends (if he/she makes any) and classmates. And that's without even taking into account the fact all of this, including being in the 'unclassified' state as well as the day-to-day lifestyle and views of the parents, will influence the child's thinking and eventual 'decision'.

 

[Black Zero]

The debate between "gender based on biology" vs "gender based on how one feels" is fascinating.

One of my close family friends had this experience.
She married and had children, but emotionally she was male (maybe alpha male ). Her husband divorced her but she led a pretty independent life and society fully accepted her as a male (people gave her a male name actually, now i am wondering if she changed her gender on NIC)

Anyway, I think its a good initiative by parents as its pushes the liberal agenda.

however, i think for babies "gender based on biology" feels more appropriate.

 

[Muhammad10]

Hmm, so until "it" "decides for itself", "it" will be referred to as an "it/they" instead of a "he/she/him/her".

 

[Black Zero]

My ex boss changed his gender and is a female now. I was due to write a linkedin recommendation for him, but don't know how to address her anymore. He is from the same country as BZ.

Its safe to assume that she would like to be addressed as female.

 

[aloo paratha]

what a joke...

 

[James]

This is very sad. A total perversion.

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

Ruined the kids childhood

 

[ExpressPacer]

My only problem is imposing your ideology on someone else, especially innocent children. They don't need this. We've all been through school and college and I'm sure everyone knows how mean kids can be. The amount of suffering and bullying this kid will have to put up because of his/her parents decision to get a few days of fame on the internet is absurd.